2 Samuel 24:4

World English Bible (2000)

Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:17 : 17 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
  • 1 Chr 21:4 : 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
  • Eccl 8:4 : 4 for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

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  • 1 Chr 21:1-7
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    86%

    1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

    2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them."

    3Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?"

    4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

    5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

    6But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

    7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

  • 2 Sam 24:1-3
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    84%

    1Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

    2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people."

    3Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

  • 1 Chr 27:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

    24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

  • 2 Sam 24:9-10
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    76%

    9Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

    10David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 2 Sam 18:1-2
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    76%

    1David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

    2David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."

  • 2 Kgs 3:6
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    6King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 27:1
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    1Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' [houses] and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
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    34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 1 Kgs 20:24
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    24Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

  • Num 2:23
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    23His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
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    7When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 2 Chr 24:24
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    24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

  • 2 Sam 2:28
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    28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

  • 2 Sam 18:4
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    4The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Chr 18:15
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    15Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

  • 2 Sam 11:1
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    1It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
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    23These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 18:5
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    5Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king."

  • 1 Chr 19:14
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    14So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 2 Chr 25:7
    70%

    7A man of God came to him, saying, "O king, don't let the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
    70%

    18Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

  • 1 Kgs 22:6
    70%

    6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
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    1It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

  • Num 26:4
    69%

    4"[Take a census of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel." These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
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    23Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

  • 1 Sam 15:4
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    4Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
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    15Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

  • Num 1:3
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    3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
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    24When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

  • 1 Chr 23:4
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    4David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;

  • 2 Sam 14:19
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    19The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 1 Chr 19:10
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    10Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

  • 2 Sam 18:16
    69%

    16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

  • 1 Chr 13:1
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    1David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.